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A review by kamrynkoble
How to Keep House While Drowning: A Gentle Approach to Cleaning and Organizing by KC Davis
emotional
hopeful
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
I’m so glad I finally read this. I’ve followed K.C. online for several years now and have enjoyed her other content.
Cleaning has never come easily to me, and I carry deep shame about how the amount of work I’m doing/what my space looks like/how that affects others. A lot of the more “psychology” based points (author is a therapist, interestingly) really did speak to me and I almost cried a few times listening to this.
The book speaks very widely—it’s obvious it’s trying to talk to as many people as possible, but at the cost of not being specific enough sometimes. I wish it was longer and perhaps had a narrower audience.
I gained some great tips from this and if you struggle with maintaining your house for whatever reason, this is a good starting point. But now I feel like I need a different book to learn how to actually execute the cleaning, now that I’m processing that said cleaning is morally neutral 😅
Seriously, if you catch yourself assigning your worth to what your house looks like or how much time you spend cleaning, give this a try. It’s short, sweet, and extremely validating.
Cleaning has never come easily to me, and I carry deep shame about how the amount of work I’m doing/what my space looks like/how that affects others. A lot of the more “psychology” based points (author is a therapist, interestingly) really did speak to me and I almost cried a few times listening to this.
The book speaks very widely—it’s obvious it’s trying to talk to as many people as possible, but at the cost of not being specific enough sometimes. I wish it was longer and perhaps had a narrower audience.
I gained some great tips from this and if you struggle with maintaining your house for whatever reason, this is a good starting point. But now I feel like I need a different book to learn how to actually execute the cleaning, now that I’m processing that said cleaning is morally neutral 😅
Seriously, if you catch yourself assigning your worth to what your house looks like or how much time you spend cleaning, give this a try. It’s short, sweet, and extremely validating.